If one savings goal is a good thing, two or more should be great, right?

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Sep 26, 2011 not rated yet 0

Researchers from the University of Toronto, the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) and Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) have created the most efficient solar cell ever made based on collodial-quatum-dots ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Sep 18, 2011 4.9 / 5 (9) 4 |

Scientists have found a control switch that regulates stem cell "pluripotency," the capacity of stem cells to develop into any type of cell in the human body. The discovery reveals that pluripotency is regulated by a single ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Sep 15, 2011 4 / 5 (4) 0 |

The health of the pension system is front page news in countries around the world with an ongoing debate on required contribution rates or minimum retirement ages. An equally relevant issue is how efficiently savings invested ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Sep 12, 2011 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby brown dwarf that may indicate a storm grander than any seen yet on a planet. Because old ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Sep 12, 2011 4.7 / 5 (10) 3 |

The days of the blood sample routine - arm out, tie tube, make a fist, find a vein and tap in -- may soon be over, thanks to a new analysis method developed at U of T by Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Aug 31, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a new method for creating 3D hydrogel scaffolds that will aid in the development of new tissue and organs grown in a lab.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Aug 31, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

The performance management process should evaluate and focus on employee engagement in addition to job performance, according to a paper published from the University of Toronto and University of Guelph. Engagement involves ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Aug 17, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 1

A standoff in the U.S. over the debt ceiling. The possibility of more bailouts in Europe. Markets slumping almost everywhere. We spoke to Professor Eric Kirzner to get a sense of what’s causing financial ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Aug 15, 2011 2.3 / 5 (3) 3

Archaeologists leading the University of Toronto's Tayinat Archaeological Project in southeastern Turkey have unearthed the remains of a monumental gate complex adorned with stone sculptures, including a magnificently ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Aug 09, 2011 5 / 5 (16) 0 |

Children in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving "executive functioning" – psychological processes such as planning, abstract thinking, and delaying gratification – ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jul 26, 2011 4.2 / 5 (6) 4

With the final launch of the Atlantis, NASA retires its space shuttle program. We spoke to Professor Chris Damaren of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies about the end of an era in manned ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 11, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 0

University of Toronto researchers have derived inspiration from the photosynthetic apparatus in plants to engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from light.

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jul 10, 2011 4.8 / 5 (18) 2 |

When NASA's final space shuttle mission launches today it will carry four astronauts and some unusual passengers – yeast cell growth experiments developed by Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto's Donnelly ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 08, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

A Q&A with physicist William Trischuk about the Large Hadron Collider.

Physics - General Physics

Jun 28, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 6